We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
NORM MACDONALDThis would have been a great game to watch if we didn’t have any money on it.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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I can’t be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I’ll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part.
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They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That’s what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn’t have a stupid opinion about it.
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There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
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Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don’t like to memorize words.
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Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter’s moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
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When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that’s a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
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A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.
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The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.
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Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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